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by confused rock
Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:48 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: A Space Law Complain
Replies: 16
Views: 1543

Re: A Space Law Complain

Gulag is 1 point for a reason, it’s not just arbitrary. If you’re giving someone 100 points in labor camp for petty shit you’re trying to hurt them.
by confused rock
Tue Aug 20, 2024 12:04 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: A topic of handedness
Replies: 5
Views: 700

Re: A topic of handedness

clearly my character would instinctively write with the hand they're better with, making this change unrealismstic
by confused rock
Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: should slimepeople remain enabled
Replies: 28
Views: 3454

Re: should slimepeople remain enabled

If we still have catgirls, then it can't really get worse than that. therefore, slimepeople are fine. If ur balls are already on fire it won't be any worse if u dip them in sulfuric acid, so to speak.
by confused rock
Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Let’s remove Rule 8, but make anyone who ERPs valid
Replies: 4
Views: 891

Re: Let’s remove Rule 8, but make anyone who ERPs valid

so, basically how ERP was already treated before the rule was added.
by confused rock
Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:11 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: NURP'D UP IDEA: Let's test a NURP server for a few months
Replies: 38
Views: 6626

Re: NURP'D UP IDEA: Let's test a NURP server for a few months

TG kinda already does no RP though, what does this really change? you can say "HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT OBAMA?!!" after killing someone, probably even on manuel. how do you get less RP than that?





Could always repeal rule 8. Then it'd REALLY be different. TG's survived having ERP allowed before, you ...
by confused rock
Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:00 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: MSO is a dictator!
Replies: 27
Views: 9694

Re: MSO is a dictator!

We actually did overthrow a previous tgstation host, scaredofshadows. MSO is genuinely one of the best hosts of any ss13 server. MSO is the server owner who tyrannizes his server the least. It *is* his server, and he *can* do what he wants. He chooses not to abuse it much. All other SS13 hosts ...
by confused rock
Wed Apr 19, 2023 3:50 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Pains, Traditions, and Rituals New Players Will Never Experience
Replies: 196
Views: 93646

Re: Pains, Traditions, and Rituals New Players Will Never Experience

Having only one antagonist type per round ensuring some semblance of balance and focus instead of an incoherent sandbox mess every round
edit: also cardinal direction only movement
by confused rock
Tue Apr 18, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: i am going to code tcomms, tell me your opinion on tcomms
Replies: 25
Views: 5386

Re: i am going to code tcomms, tell me your opinion on tcomms

isn't tcomms complicated enough already?
by confused rock
Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:29 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Older players - what did you enjoy about playing on /tg/?
Replies: 245
Views: 103784

Re: Older players - what did you enjoy about playing on /tg/?

Confession: I liked rolling for traitor and murderboning. My goal was usually, but not always, to kill as many people as possible one-by-one to show how good I was at the game, then walk onto an empty shuttle victorious to show I could do an old hijack no problem. I had other gimmicks involving ...
by confused rock
Mon Apr 10, 2023 7:00 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Invalidate "purging AI is metagaming" ruling
Replies: 33
Views: 6206

Re: Invalidate "purging AI is metagaming" ruling

The solution is to give the AI effective antag status when purged, to discourage people from purging them.
by confused rock
Mon Apr 10, 2023 5:18 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: What are you nerds playing?
Replies: 3324
Views: 957412

Re: What are you fucks playing?

neverwinter nights
by confused rock
Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:17 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Naming policy draft public perusal thread
Replies: 74
Views: 14712

Re: Naming policy draft public perusal thread

Naming policy that gives certain species special naming freedoms for no real reason doesn't do anything but lead to frustration and confusion. If U want people to hate a species on an ooc level, then letting them be named lamp fluff moff (which WILL happen, only human names are ever policed) is the ...
by confused rock
Thu Jul 28, 2022 8:00 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Remove stasis beds
Replies: 36
Views: 7842

Re: Remove stasis beds

your opinion means nothing to me
by confused rock
Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:38 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Remove stasis beds
Replies: 36
Views: 7842

Re: Remove stasis beds

you say that like there's any time pressure on a server with no permadeath.
by confused rock
Sun Jul 17, 2022 4:13 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The game has become too complex
Replies: 113
Views: 33125

Re: The game has become too complex

Im rock i have like a bajillion hours and have travelled far and wide in search of good gameplay and good rp
Pkpenguin is right about everything and also game is so complex now its ANNOYING to do those job tasks now which isnt good it makes me want to play a simpler server

Dorsidwarf’s type 2 ...
by confused rock
Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:46 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What's your, "God i wish /tg/ had this" moment
Replies: 85
Views: 25199

Re: What's your, "God i wish /tg/ had this" moment

wnzl wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:52 am now that ive been playing more tgmc i wish tg had looc
it genuinely might reduce the amount of norp shit people say.

Also I for one prefer reverse typebaiting, opening the typing indicator and blasting them while they wait for me to say something.
by confused rock
Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:10 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Does any other server have better security bots?
Replies: 20
Views: 4634

Re: Does any other server have better security bots?



I think the real issue is how stun-based combat used to/currently works and cyborgs being immune to the usual arsenal. Say we re-add secborgs exactly as we left them with no changes, so they'll have a stun baton and disabler. Any criminal that doesn't have a flash is essentially screwed by the ...
by confused rock
Thu Jan 27, 2022 7:00 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Does any other server have better security bots?
Replies: 20
Views: 4634

Re: Does any other server have better security bots?

I've played servers which keep secborgs, servers which replaced it with a forensics cyborg that's supposed to avoid combat, and a server with a real weird hybrid ai-secborg thing. I'd say not really; hell, even peacekeeper borgs are a shitty meme borg more than anything. It's a shame, since secborgs ...
by confused rock
Tue Jan 25, 2022 9:08 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [MRP] Introduce Death Blackout Rules
Replies: 34
Views: 5482

Re: [MRP] Introduce Death Blackout Rules

I've played with true blindness on HRP. It fucking sucks. It's really frustrating to have no idea whether you should ghost or not when you're dying, and while that wouldn't always be as big a problem here, you're probably still gonna know who nabbed you from when you were awake.
by confused rock
Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:57 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 2014-ish /tg/ Simulator Thread
Replies: 35
Views: 8810

Re: 2014-ish /tg/ Simulator Thread


Two players, typically xenos, spend literally every minute of the round with each other. They only really speak when spoken to. What adbin do?


in like 2015 the lizard erp metagang took an escape pod when it was code red. they waited until all 4 lizards were onboard and immediately launched to ...
by confused rock
Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:57 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 2014-ish /tg/ Simulator Thread
Replies: 35
Views: 8810

Re: 2014-ish /tg/ Simulator Thread


Two players, typically xenos, spend literally every minute of the round with each other. They only really speak when spoken to. What adbin do?


in like 2015 the lizard erp metagang took an escape pod when it was code red. they waited until all 4 lizards were onboard and immediately launched to ...
by confused rock
Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:23 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Tell admins to stop randomly smiting people.
Replies: 47
Views: 9659

Re: Tell admins to stop randomly smiting people.

I find that shoe tying as a "stop that" punishment is a bad way to go about things. If it's actually against the rules, then this is horribly informal and you're not being lenient, you're just refusing to actually engage with the player. If the player continues, you better not consider the shoe ...
by confused rock
Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:18 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Raise the standards of the LRP servers to that of the MRP servers
Replies: 72
Views: 14887

Re: Raise the standards of the LRP servers to that of the MRP servers

I warned people at the time that making an mrp server would just kill rp on all our other servers and ruin the tg experience for people who like rp *and* action but no one would listen
by confused rock
Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:42 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Raise the standards of the LRP servers to that of the MRP servers
Replies: 72
Views: 14887

Re: Raise the standards of the LRP servers to that of the MRP servers

The manuel rules still fucking suck, 90% of them are still “placeholder” rules from goonstation.
by confused rock
Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:03 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What else do you people do in dorms?
Replies: 25
Views: 4579

Re: What else do you people do in dorms?



I meant more like you're never going to use that unless you're stuck in space or on mining or something with no healing items and the more health you have the less likely you are to die there


That's why the survival pod has a bed, pretty redundant with the donk-pockets though. Sleep overhaul ...
by confused rock
Wed Dec 01, 2021 5:47 pm
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: Everyone on manual is so nice and accepting it gives me a fucking headache.
Replies: 99
Views: 56543

Re: Everyone on manual is so nice and accepting it gives me a fucking headache.


oh sure they're nice and accepting until you get into a minor IC escalation with one of the server's popular statics and then you're going to be run out of the server by constant and repeated metagrudging by around 30% of the population.


oranges.... is...

....in my opinion.....

*sobs ...
by confused rock
Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:01 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: What shuttles are and aren't grief shuttles?
Replies: 24
Views: 6189

Re: What shuttles are and aren't grief shuttles?

The pile of shit shuttle at the time was oh hi daniel.
by confused rock
Tue Nov 23, 2021 5:47 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: What shuttles are and aren't grief shuttles?
Replies: 24
Views: 6189

What shuttles are and aren't grief shuttles?

Referring to:
https://i.snipboard.io/OZgF0a.jpg
I realise now that the current one off headmin policy on this is vague as fuck. It was created back when oh hi daniel was a common shuttle, but now there's a loot of shuttles and what is and isn't bad is debatable. And I think context is important ...
by confused rock
Mon Nov 22, 2021 7:52 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: had a dream they invented new types of lizards
Replies: 17
Views: 3557

Re: had a dream they invented new types of lizards

Super Aggro Crag wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 10:58 pm lizards were not racist based on what type of lizard you were but instead on what year the other lizard was born
ok boomer
by confused rock
Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:23 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: banning for ""random searching"" people with scrying orbs
Replies: 28
Views: 5521

Re: banning for ""random searching"" people with scrying orbs

The problem with the scrying orb is the dynamic gamemode. wizard wasn't designed for there to be other antags, it was designed for the round to end by the time sec was looting a scrying orb.
by confused rock
Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:27 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [MRP] Triple Threat: Powergaming, Powergaming as Sec, and Powergaming as Antag
Replies: 29
Views: 8481

Re: [MRP] Triple Threat: Powergaming, Powergaming as Sec, and Powergaming as Antag


What does security require that they lack already? The only next logical step for most of their gear is unanswerable oneshots and scouring the station for every miniscule possible answer to danger, which is part of the arms race problem.

What? No. They need anything that does anything against ...
by confused rock
Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:08 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [MRP] Triple Threat: Powergaming, Powergaming as Sec, and Powergaming as Antag
Replies: 29
Views: 8481

Re: [MRP] Triple Threat: Powergaming, Powergaming as Sec, and Powergaming as Antag

Why is it that other departments can get better equipment for their job, miners can get a fucking cleaver saw thing that's better than any lethals security can get, before something happens, but when sec does it it's powergaming? Please do correct me if security has a single fucking tool to deal ...
by confused rock
Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:40 am
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: you find rock
Replies: 33
Views: 12005

Re: you find rock

fuck off
by confused rock
Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:20 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Okay seriously what's the point of the detective's revolver
Replies: 77
Views: 19278

Re: Okay seriously what's the point of the detective's revolver

The sad thing is that the detective revolver is literally the most reliable weapon security has, only thing that won’t get deflected by eshields and juggernauts and ammo is cheap as hell.
by confused rock
Fri Jul 09, 2021 12:56 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: best signatures
Replies: 69
Views: 14688

Re: best signatures

Sniffing glue doesn't make you better at ss13, but ss13 does make you better at sniffing glue.
by confused rock
Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:17 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: /tg/station Gameshow: The Robust and Robusted
Replies: 43
Views: 10719

Re: /tg/station Gameshow: The Robust and Robusted

Lola's win was a bit completely bullshit and cringe BUTTT it was all luck the whole way through. Yeah Joey is literally the gamerest botany player of all time but c'mon, the last challenge was botany. That isn't fair regardless, TG isn't about botany. Lola did what they could, don't take this too ...
by confused rock
Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:21 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: [MRP] Lavaland elites on the station?
Replies: 43
Views: 11534

Re: [MRP] Lavaland elites on the station?

Imaginos wrote:the fact that we don't have a consistent opinion about it, makes it even worse for everyone.
That's an interesting way to spin people disagreeing with your opinion as supporting your opinion
by confused rock
Mon May 24, 2021 3:27 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI
Replies: 40
Views: 7689

Re: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI

saprasam wrote:never played fnaf because im a massive pansy
never played AI because im a massive pansy (scared I'll get banned if I miss a law 2 order)
by confused rock
Sun May 23, 2021 6:19 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI
Replies: 40
Views: 7689

Re: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI


How proactively helpful I am heavily depends on the station pop. If every department is staffed, just chillin'. If there are big gaps, I try not to let them be miserable about "there's no power" or "there's nobody doing R&D" or the like.
How proactive I am checking cameras depends on how many ...
by confused rock
Sun May 23, 2021 6:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI
Replies: 40
Views: 7689

Re: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI

As an AI, I strive to do the absolute minimum number of tasks possible. I keep an eye out for human harm, and I follow law 2 orders from humans. That's it.
If you're being helpful even when your laws don't obligate you to be, you aren't doing AI right.
As Mike Schmidt, I strive to do the absolute ...
by confused rock
Thu May 20, 2021 3:36 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI
Replies: 40
Views: 7689

Re: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI

in five night's at freddy's: sister location, you start your shift by giving your adversaries "controlled shocks." this is prevalent in a later fnaf game at well. This is reminiscient of the turrets the AI has, which give non-lethal controlled shocks. This is also the purpose of the controlled ...
by confused rock
Wed May 19, 2021 10:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI
Replies: 40
Views: 7689

Identified the genre and gameplay loop of AI

AI's always been weird. Back when I first started playing "malf ai" was a common gamemode where the only antag was the AI trying to go delta. and since this was before science and mining got a load of bullshit tools, they actually had a chance (disregarding perseus adminbus on LLAstation). It's ...
by confused rock
Wed May 05, 2021 8:37 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Better traits for friendly kudzu
Replies: 4
Views: 1441

Re: Better traits for friendly kudzu

saprasam wrote:if the station turns into fucking jumani im gonna personally fly over to botany and elbowdrop them because "the kudzu is good 4 you :P"
by confused rock
Wed May 05, 2021 7:40 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: vintage ss13 gameplay [no combat mode] [batons stun instantly] [catgirl]
Replies: 75
Views: 19493

Re: vintage ss13 gameplay [no combat mode] [batons stun instantly] [catgirl]

you're a shitter from 2018 and oranges is older than you.
by confused rock
Mon May 03, 2021 12:56 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: vintage ss13 gameplay [no combat mode] [batons stun instantly] [catgirl]
Replies: 75
Views: 19493

Re: vintage ss13 gameplay [no combat mode] [batons stun instantly] [catgirl]

legality wrote:
cacogen wrote:there's always a time when it was the best and it probably corresponds to your own honeymoon period with the game and that time was 2012
this is because the game is getting worse and worse
by confused rock
Fri Apr 23, 2021 4:44 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Clown removal on manuel
Replies: 20
Views: 4910

Re: Clown removal on manuel

I like the jester in lifeweb you throw them at a wall and they puke and die
by confused rock
Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:45 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: special trait for lizardmen: snek
Replies: 3
Views: 1350

Re: special trait for lizardmen: snek

nianjiilical wrote:nugget trait that cant be picked if you roll heads would be kind of funny
we already let heads be blind paraplegics anyways
by confused rock
Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:11 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: vintage ss13 gameplay [no combat mode] [batons stun instantly] [catgirl]
Replies: 75
Views: 19493

Re: vintage ss13 gameplay [no combat mode] [batons stun instantly] [catgirl]

Any /tg/amers joined after 2016 can't hold a valuable opinion, all they know is clown, whine on discord, powergame, be lowrp, waste cargo budget and vote for a bad headmin